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Family lawyers feel the strain as number of care cases skyrocket
More and more care applications are being made, meaning more and more work for family lawyers
Morning round-up: Tuesday 23 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Will EU law even be a module on law degrees next year?
Heightened Brexit fears spark student uncertainty
Silk day: Boris takes Brexit break to celebrate wife’s QC appointment
Social media awash with full bottomed wigs and silver buckled shoes
Neuberger beats Hale in most-mentioned Supreme Court judge rankings
And Sumption comes third in analysis of newspaper articles citing top justices
Morning round-up: Monday 22 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Does The Sun’s links to ‘kufr’ lawyer’s firm make it ‘extremist’?
Being tainted by association has its limits
The tabloid newspaper reporting of the Supreme Court joint enterprise ruling is really, really bad
Misguided media riles lawyers
Lawyers with brilliant names you just couldn’t make up
From Cinderela and beyond
Social mobility initiative goes north as Bar Placement Week makes Liverpool debut
QCs of the future could come from under privileged families outside London, and the Bar Council wants to boost odds of finding them
Oxbridge students shun regional law firms
Oxford and Cambridge graduates make up less than 5% of trainees outside London
Morning round-up: Friday 19 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Regulation that plagued family lawyers declared ‘invalid’ by Court of Appeal
Chris Grayling's changes to rules on domestic abuse sufferers getting legal aid don't stand up to scrutiny
Criminal law syllabuses to get makeover as Supreme Court gives landmark joint enterprise judgment
Felicity Gerry QC and Adam Wagner victorious as court changes the law
Silver circle takes on the magic circle as Macfarlanes boosts junior lawyer pay to £70,000
Single-office City firm chucks an extra £5,000 at its newly qualified lawyers
Morning round-up: Thursday 18 February
The morning’s top legal affairs news stories
Appeal judge who was cleared of flashing on packed commuter train retires at 65
Lord Justice Richards hangs up his robes
Macfarlanes continues bumper retention season posting perfect 100% spring score
All six Macfarlanes qualifiers have committed their future to the "silver circle" outfit
Addleshaw Goddard and Maclay Murray & Spens cease merger talks
Merger mania: Olswang eyeing up Bird & Bird and Simmons & Simmons, meanwhile Berwin Leighton Paisner and Greenberg Traurig in talks
The solicitors that took their chances on publishing and cake making — without giving up their legal careers
Legal Cheek meets the lawyers that bucked the trend and started up their own businesses